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An Táin Arts Centre

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xxxCrowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Dundalk
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Moving Mountains | Greta Usaite at the An Táin Arts Centre - 03/09/2025 - 27/09/2025 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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An Táin Arts Centre
Crowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth - Dundalk
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  • Moving Mountains | Greta Usaite at the An Táin Arts Centre - 03/09/2025 - 27/09/2025 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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  •  Nuala O’Donovan and Marcel Vidal Receive Golden Fleece Award of €12,000 Each
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  • Affordable Housing for Artists Wins Approval in London
  • Aideen Barry Awarded Bunting Harp Collection Commission from Music Network and the Irish Traditional Music Archive
  • Aideen Barry Launches Public Art Work in the UK
  • Aideen Barry Wins Final Entry to Modern Ireland in 100 Art Works
  • Aideen Barry, Clare Langan and Margaret Irwin West Elected to Aosdána at its 40th General Assembly
  • Aideen McGinley appointed Director and Chairperson of Galway 2020
  • Aideen Quirke Appointed Director of Cork Printmakers
  • Ailbhe Ní Bhriain Announced as Winner of the 2020 Golden Fleece Award
  • Alan Dunne and Alé Mercado Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020
  • Alan Phelan and David Beattie Awarded the Plinth Commissions 2020/21 – Void Gallery, Derry
  • Amanda Coogan and Julie Merriman Receive Markievicz Award 2020
  • Amanda Coogan Announced as Curator of RDS Visual Art Awards 2018
  • Anishta Chooramun Awarded RHA Graduate Studio Award 2018
  • Annabel Potterton Announced as Recipient of Solstice Visual Arts Award 2019
  • Annie Fletcher Appointed Director of IMMA
  • Announcement of 2015 UCD Science Artists in Residence
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  • Aosdána Elects 12 New Members
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  • Arno Kramer – On the Place of Contemporary Drawing – Talk Dublin
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  • Art Lending Scheme for Schools Launched in Northern Ireland
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  • Artist Talk Series | The Workhouse with Ines Schaber (4 Dec, 6pm.)
  • Artist Talk: Laura O’Connor | Panel Discussion – Jobs, Opportunities & Challenges (6 April) | Postponed
  • Artist-in-Residence for New Creative Spark/Create Louth Residency Programme
  • Artist, Eva Rothschild and Curator, Mary Cremin to Represent Ireland at the 58th Venice Art Biennale in 2019
  • Artists announced for Accenture’s Women on Walls at DCU
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  • Artists at Risk if Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is Scrapped, Warns Visual Artists Ireland
  • Artists Overwhelmingly Approve Canada’s First Labour Agreement with National Gallery
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  • Arts Council and Arts & Disability Ireland announce recipients of the 2020 Arts and Disability Connect Scheme
  • Arts Council Announce Successful Applicants of Artist in the Community Scheme 2019 Round One
  • Arts Council Announce Workspace Scheme 2019 Recipients
  • Arts Council Announces €350,000 Local Arts Collaborative Awards
  • Arts Council announces appointment of Deirdre Behan at Strategic Development Director
  • Arts Council announces expanded Bursary Award across all art forms
  • Arts Council Announces Formation of Creative Schools Team
  • Arts Council Announces Niamh Lunny as Recipient of Jerome Hynes Fellowship 2018/2019
  • Arts Council Announces Recipients of Next Generation Bursaries
  • Arts Council Announces Results of Visual Artists’ Workspace Scheme for 2015
  • Arts Council Awards 94 Commissions to Artists and Organisations Across Ireland
  • Arts Council Compliance & Governance Conference
  • Arts Council Establish Advisory Group for Covid-19 Crisis
  • Arts Council Funding increased to €130 million in Budget 2021
  • Arts Council Invests €7 million in 530 Artists Across Ireland
  • Arts Council Launch Audience Mapping Tool
  • Arts Council National Survey on Arts Attendance, Participation and Engagement – Hear the Results
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland Announce Recipients of SIAP Funding
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland Announces Recipients of ACES Awards 2019-20
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland awards almost £1.2 million National Lottery funding to local projects
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland Honours Four Major Artists
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland Publishes 2017 Annual Funding Survey and Annual Review
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland publishes findings from its 2019/20 Annual Funding Survey
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland to Open Creative Support Fund
  • Arts Council of Ireland Announces Ignite Touring Award
  • Arts Council of Ireland Creative Europe Desk
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland Announce Recipients of Equipment Programme
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland awards £1.5 million Lottery Project Funding to 54 arts organisations
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland Awards Residencies in India to Eleanor Wheeler and Kathryn Graham
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland Consultation | Equality Action Plan and Disability Action Plan
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland Consultation: Equality Action Plan and Disability Action Plan
  • Arts Council of Northern Ireland COVID-19 Survey
  • Arts Council Partners with Microsoft on ‘Hour of Code’
  • Arts Council Publish Dignity and Respect at Work Resource Documents
  • Arts Council Publishes Arts Centre Policy and Strategy 2019 and Information Sessions
  • Arts Council Survey | Impact of COVID-19 on Professional Artists (closes Tuesday 14 April)
  • Arts Council Survey Results | Nine in ten artists hit by Covid-19 losses
  • Arts Council: ‘New Strategy for the Arts in 2015’
  • Arts Grants / Bursaries Information Sessions – Dublin City Council
  • Ask! Has the Artist Been Paid?
  • Barry Lynch wins the 8th King Ping Pong 2019 for DCC Arts
  • Basic Income for the Arts – FAQ’s for VAI Members – Updated November 2nd, 2022
  • Basic Space Announce New Co-Directors Moran Been-noon, Siobhán Mooney and Julia Moustacchi
  • Basic Space Residency Programme 2016 Recipient: Joanne Reid
  • Bassam Al-Sabah Recipient of Fingal Arts Studio Award 2019
  • Bassam Al-Sabah, Sam Keogh, Ruth E. Lyons and Inga Meldere Recipients of TBG+S International Residencies
  • BBK Berlin Translate VAI Payment Guidelines into German!
  • Belfast Exposed Announce Artists for Future Artists Programme 2020
  • Belfast Open Studios | Saturday 21 October 2017
  • Belfast Open Studios 2015: Curators Programme
  • Belfast Open Studios 2016 | Open Call for Artists To Get Involved
  • Belfast Open Studios Begins Saturday October 20th
  • Beyond 2022: Launch of Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury Research Project
  • Bill Balaskas Awarded the TOYOTAYA Commission, Cork
  • Book a one-on-one Visual Artists Help Desk (Online)
  • Book Your Place Now at Visual Artists’ Café @ Belfast Photo Festival
  • Brian Kielt joins VAI as Advocacy and Advice for Northern Ireland
  • Briefing Sessions for Arts + Disability Forum Individual Disabled/Deaf Artists Awards
  • Budget 2016 Letter to Ministers Heather Humphries and Michael Noonan
  • Budget 2017 | Additional €5m for the Arts Council, overall budget for arts down by 16 per cent
  • Budget 2018 | Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht
  • Building Peace Through the Arts; Project News
  • Burren College of Art Announces Emerging Irish Artist Residency Recipients
  • Bursaries Awarded to 57 Gaeltacht Artists
  • Business to Arts and Creative Ireland Seeking Host Companies for Artist-in-Residence (AR) Programme
  • Call for Information – Highlighting Public Art in Healthcare
  • Call for Inputs for UN Report: Cultural Rights and Climate Change
  • Call for Nominations | Allianz Business to Arts Awards 2017
  • Call for Participation | Make a Hyacinth, Bucket Challenge Sculpture with Alan Phelan
  • Catherine Hemelryk Announced as New Director of CCA, Derry
  • Cecilia Danell Wins VAI Suki Tea Art Prize 2019
  • Celebrate your Organisations Commitment to Equitable Payment Conditions for Artists
  • Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris: Artists in Residence 2015/16
  • Centre Culturel Irlandais: the recipients of residencies and bursaries for the Centre’s 2020-2021 programme
  • Change of Schedule | Public Art Now International Conference, Grangegorman, Ireland
  • Changing Arts and Minds: It’s time to talk about mental health and wellbeing in the creative sector
  • Ciara Moloney announced as PS² Freelands Artist Programme Curator 2020-2022
  • Communications and Digital Marketing for Visual Artists with Emma Dwyer
  • Cork Printmakers Commission Marianne Keating for Artwork at Wandesford Quay
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) – VAI Update 25 March 2020
  • Corporate Governance for the Irish Arts Sector, New Publication by Penelope Kenny
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment available to those experiencing loss of income
  • COVID-19 Supports For Artists And Those Working In The Arts Sector (Press Statement – DCHG)
  • COVID-19: Road back to Business – The Visual Arts
  • Crawford Art Gallery Welcomes Mary McCarthy as New Gallery Director
  • Create Announce Successful Applicants of AIC Scheme Second Round 2019
  • Create to Manage Creative Places Ireland, Tuam, Co Galway
  • Creative Enterprises Survey, Western Region
  • Creative Europe Announce Pilot Mobility Scheme for Artists and Culture Professionals from April 2019
  • Creative Ireland | Local Authority Community Engagement Workshops
  • Creative Ireland Bursaries Awarded in Wexford County
  • Creative Ireland Programme and Dublin City Council Announce Diversity Commissions
  • Critical Media and Public Response to Statements Made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Washington
  • Culture Action Europe | European Parliament Elections 2019 Campaign
  • Culture Action Europe | Live Online Dialogue with MEP Candidates, 25 April
  • Culture Action Europe Launches the Double for Culture Campaign
  • Culture Action Europe Questionnaire | Social Inclusion: partnering with other sectors
  • Culture Crops: Last Days To Register
  • Culture Ireland Announce Recipients of €400,000 in Funding
  • Culture Ireland Arts Support in 2016
  • Culture Night 2020 | Friday 18 September, Connecting through Culture
  • Culture Night Consultations – Dublin, Cork and Galway
  • Curator Talk and Peer Critique with Joseph Wolin – Dublin
  • Curators Alice Butler, Edy Fung, Mirjami Schuppert and Rebecca Strain Selected for New Spaces 2018
  • Current Calls for Artists to provide work without a fee
  • Dáil debate on the Arts to take place on Wednesday 22nd June
  • DCC / VAI Critical Writing Award 2014 Winner
  • Deadline Approaching to Apply for VAI Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • Deadline Extended for Arts Council Arts Grant Funding – 13 March
  • Deadline Extension | Open Call for Curators for New Spaces Project, Derry
  • Deadline Reminder | Applications Open for VAI Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • Deadline Reminder | Arts Council Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2017
  • Deadline Reminder | National Survey on Visual Artists’ Workspaces
  • Deadline Reminder for DCHG Capital Investment Framework 2016-2021
  • Deirdre O’Mahony Awarded the O’Malley Art Award 2018
  • Deirdre Robb announced as new CEO of Belfast Exposed
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Announces Funding of Irish Arts Abroad
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Regional Consultations on Culture 2025
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to be Replaced by Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht
  • Department of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht Issue Clarification on New Measures
  • Developing Creative Proposals with Annette Moloney – Tipperary
  • Developing Creative Proposals with Annette Moloney, Belfast | 9 July
  • Diego Bruno announced as Finnish recipient of HIAP/TBG+S Residency Exchange 2017
  • Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Peter Murray, announces his retirement
  • Director Sarah Glennie to leave IMMA and become Director of NCAD in January 2018
  • Do you agree that artists should be paid?
  • Do you need financial advice or information about proper corporate governance?
  • Documenting your Work with Tim Durham – Dublin
  • Documenting your Work with Tim Durham – Dublin
  • Documenting Your Work with Veronica Nicholson, Portlaoise
  • Dominic McKeown and Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl Awarded University of Atypical’s Graduate Award 2020
  • Doris Salcedo Wins $1 M. Nomura Award
  • Dublin City Council Arts Funding 2018 Project and Neighbourhood Information Sessions
  • Dublin City Council Culture Company Announce Artists Selected for Engage the City
  • Dublin City Council Launches Major Public Art Project – Sculpture Dublin
  • Dublin Gallery Map, April 2015 Edition, Now Available
  • Dublin Port Announces New Commissioned Artists and Public Works for 2017
  • Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Age Winners Announced
  • Eight Artists Selected as Part of Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme
  • Eight Visual Artists Among Recipients of iDA Awards
  • EJ Peters: An Appreciation
  • Emma McKeagney Announced as Winner of Talbot Studios Most Promising Graduate Award 2017
  • Entries Open for Voluntary Arts Epic Awards 2018
  • Equipment Hire at VAI
  • Equipment Hire at VAI
  • Ethics & Transition: Read All About it
  • EU Consultation on the Future of Copyright – Have Your Say
  • EU President Luca Jahier to Visit Belfast and Meet Artists
  • European Commission Survey on Remuneration for Photographers, Illustrators and Designers
  • European Study on Artists’ Working Conditions Published
  • EVA International Artists Announced
  • Eva Rothschild Awarded Docklands Public Art Commission, Dublin
  • EVENT POSTPONED, Visual Artists Cafe at North Down Museum, Bangor
  • Experiment! Call for Applications for New VAI Research Residency Funding
  • Fairland Collective Appointed Bealtaine Artist In Residence in a Care Setting
  • Fergus Martin Wins IACI O’Malley Award 2014
  • Fiona Harrington Appointed Curator of Headford Lace Project
  • First Recipients of Markievicz Awards Announced
  • Five Artists Awarded Project Studios at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
  • Five Artists Shortlisted for 2020 Golden Fleece Award
  • Flax Art Studios (Belfast) to Launch New Sculpture and Media Facilities in December
  • Folding Chairs Free to Take Away from VAI Dublin Office
  • Folk Radio Will Go Live on 87.9 FM in Feb 2020
  • FOOTFALL Report Published by 126 Artist-Run Gallery
  • For Northern Ireland Organisations – CIF Briefing: Prepare your organisation for Brexit
  • Four Artists Chosen for Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018
  • Fourteen arts organisations to participate in Resilience Programme, Northern Ireland
  • Free Admission announced for the Lucian Freud exhibition at IMMA from 24 Oct. to 5 Nov. 2017
  • Free events hosted by members launching in October at The VAI Members Area
  • Funding for UK Not-for-Profit Organisations | Paul Hamlyn – Arts Access and Participation Fund
  • Galway 2020 announces appointment of Chris Baldwin as Creative Director
  • Galway 2020 Appoints Three Cultural Producers – Kate Howard, Liz Kelly and Craig Flaherty
  • Galway 2020 Reimagined Programme Announced
  • Galway County Council Arts Office Announces Artist awards 2015
  • Galway County Council Arts Plan 2019-2023 Consultation – Professional Arts Survey
  • Galway County Council seeking Nominations for The Cathaoirleach’s Community Awards 2016
  • Galway to be European Capital of Culture 2020
  • Georgina Jackson Appointed Director of The Douglas Hyde Gallery
  • Get Together 2014 – Friday, 23rd May 2014 in IMMA
  • Get Together 2014: Highlights, Schedule of Events and Bookings
  • Get Together 2014: Thank You!!!
  • Get Together 2015: Ireland’s National Day for Visual Artists in IMMA
  • Get Together 2015: Speed Curating: Call for Curators
  • Get Together 2016 coincides with A FAIR LAND, Grizedale Arts at IMMA
  • Get Together 2017 takes place this Friday, 15 September
  • Get Together 2021: Ireland’s National Day for Visual Artists
  • Get Together 2023, VAI’s National Day for Visual Artists
  • Get Together 2025 | Tickets on Sale Now
  • Get Together Feedback Survey
  • Get Together Recordings | Artistic Freedom – a human right with many obstacles
  • Get Together Recordings | Curating Ireland: New Ways of Working
  • Get Together Recordings | Illustrating A Point – Panel Discussion
  • Get Together Recordings | Sustaining Your Practice – Mary A. Kelly, Geraldine O’Reilly, Nick Miller and Susan MacWilliam
  • Get Together: Call for Curators
  • Government Launch ‘Creative Ireland’ Plan
  • Grace McMurray wins The Arts Club Award at Summer Exhibiton of Royal Academy of Arts London
  • Grant Awarded to Amharclann Chois Fharraige, Indreabhán, Co. Galway
  • Green on Red Gallery to Reopen in Spencer Dock
  • Green on Red Gallery wins King Ping Pong 2017
  • Group Crit with Raoul Klooker – Queer Artistic Practices – Dublin
  • Handling & Packaging your Work with Maurice Ward Art Handling
  • Handling and Packaging your Work with Maurice Ward
  • Handling and Packaging your Work with Maurice Ward Art Handling
  • Hannah Kiely Steps Down as Chief Executive of Galway 2020
  • Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year from VAI
  • Has the artist been paid? VAI Artist Payment Survey 2021 – Open Now!
  • Have your say | Consultation on Arts Council of Northern Ireland Strategy (2013-2018)
  • Have Your Say | Research on the Needs of Artist Workspaces in Dublin – Dublin City Council
  • Have Your Say | Wicklow County Council Arts Plan Consultation
  • Heather Humphreys announces funding of almost €750,000 for voluntary arts organisations nationwide
  • Helen Marten wins Turner Prize 2016
  • Hennessy Portrait Prize Winner
  • Highlanes Gallery Announce Shortlist for Open Exhibition, Bernie Masterson is Recipient of Janet Mullarney Prize
  • Hospitalfield (UK) Announce Interdisciplinary Residents 2018
  • Ian Wilson Commissioned as part of Gaining Ground; Clare County Council Arts Office
  • IETM Mapping: European Fund-Finder, Updated for 2017
  • If you are offering art or classes/education of any kind then you may need to register for VAT!
  • IMMA and the Crawford Art Gallery Receive €1million Fund to Purchase Artworks
  • IMMA Announce 2020 Programme
  • IMMA announces first IMMA 1000 Residency Award Winners
  • IMMA Announces Partnership with Irish Arts Center in New York
  • IMMA Launches Major New Private Fundraising Initiative to Support Contemporary Art in Ireland
  • Important News about Artists Resale Right
  • IN CONTEXT 4 – IN OUR TIME Public Art Commissions Announced
  • Information Clinics | Child Safeguarding Guidelines for the Arts Sector
  • Information for Visual Artists on the ACNI Artists Emergency Programme
  • Introducing: The miniVAN
  • Invitation to Visual Artists | Belfast City Council European Capital of Culture 2023 Bid Discussion Dinners
  • Irish Arts Organisations Successful in Accessing European Culture Funds
  • Irish Recipient of HIAP/TBG+S Residency Exchange 2016 Announced
  • IVARO Announces RETURN 2015 is Open for Claims
  • IVARO Announces RETURN 2016 is Open for Claims
  • IVARO Distributes €25,000 in RETURN Royalties
  • Jan/Feb/March Webinar Recordings Now Available to VAI Members
  • January – February 2022 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Jesse Jones and commissioner Tessa Giblin to represent Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017
  • Jesse Jones Announced as Recipient of the Creative Residency Award, King’s Inns
  • Jill Cousins appointed Director of The Hunt Museum, Limerick
  • Joan Clancy Gallery Presents Annual Exhibition Prizes at Crawford Degree Show, Cork
  • John Cunningham and Margot Lyons Appointed to IMMA Board of Directors
  • Josepha Madigan Announces €766,000 in Funding by Culture Ireland
  • Josepha Madigan Appointed Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
  • Josepha Madigan TD Announces €2.13m in Funding from Culture Ireland
  • July / August 2018 Issue
  • June Webinar Recordings Now Available to Members
  • Katharine Lamb Commission Unveiled at Dun Laoghaire’s New Lexicon
  • Kerry Guinan to Curate TULCA 2019
  • Kevin Gaffney Awarded Sky Academy Arts Scholarship
  • Kevin Gaffney Receives Kooshk Artist Residency Award, Tehran
  • Koyo Kouoh appointed as the curator of EVA International
  • Last Bookings for Get Together 2014
  • Last Chance to Book | Being Creative: Tools in how to maintain creativity and overcome blocks (Limerick)
  • Last Chance to Book | Exploring Budgets with Visual Artists with Annette Moloney (24 Feb)
  • Last Chance to Book | Information Session: GDPR for Visual Artists, Dublin
  • Last Chance to Book | Peer Critique with Maryisa Wieckiewicz-Carroll at the RHA
  • Last Chance to Book | Per Cent for Art Scheme Applications (4 May)
  • Last Chance to Book | Show and Tell – Artist Registration (Focus: Co. Kilkenny based artists)
  • Last Chance to Book | Thinking Outside the Box (11 Feb)
  • Last Chance to Book | Thinking Outside the Box (11 Feb)
  • Last Chance to Book | VAI Lifelong Learning Seminars
  • Last Chance to Book | Visual Artists Café – Artist Led Initiatives (2 Feb.)
  • Last Chance to Book | Working with Curators with Brendan Fox, Wexford
  • Late Night Art Belfast | Thursday 2 June
  • Late Night Art Belfast | Thursday 5 October
  • Late Night Art Belfast | Thursday 7 December
  • Late Night Art Belfast | Thursday 7 September
  • Launch of In Context 4 – In Our Time, County Library, Dublin 24
  • Launch of the Artist Protection Fund
  • Launch of the Ireland 2016 Commemorative Programme
  • Laura Fitzgerald Announced as Recipient of the 2019 Emergence Visual Art Award
  • Laura Fitzgerald, Richard John Jones Bridget O’Gorman and Sue Rainsford Awarded IMMA Freud Project Residencies
  • Leah Hilliard Awarded Digital Transformations Bursary
  • Legal Advice Clinics for Visual Artists & Makers of Fine Craft with Brenda Tobin / LASA
  • Lifelong Learning | Next Week’s Events | Online Curator Talk | Laura McCafferty | March 9, 2023 @ 3pm
  • Lifelong Learning | Online Curator Talk | Laura McCafferty | March 9, 2023 @ 3pm
  • Lily Cahill Announced as Winner of DCC/VAI Art Writing Award 2019
  • Limerick Cultural Strategy Public Meetings in April
  • Linda Shevlin Appointed Project Curator at Solstice Arts Centre
  • Linda Shevlin to Curate TULCA 2018 | Syntonic State
  • List Your Exhibitions, Events and Opportunities with VAI
  • List Your Exhibitions, Events and Opportunities with VAI
  • List Your Exhibitions, Events and Opportunities with VAI
  • Lubaina Himid wins Turner Prize 2017
  • Maeve Mulrennan Joins Cork County Council Arts Office
  • March / April 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists’ New Sheet Out Now!
  • March / April 2020 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • March / April Issue of the Visual Artists’ New Sheet Out Now!
  • March-April 2021 Issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • March/April 2022 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Mark McGreevy Wins Suki Tea Art Prize 2017
  • MART Studios seeks participation in Survey on Artists’ Studio Requirements
  • Mary Cremin Announced as TULCA Festival of Visual Art 2015 Curator
  • Mary Cremin appointed as Acting Programme Curator of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
  • Mary Cremin Appointed Director of Void Gallery
  • Matt Packer Appointed Director of EVA International
  • Maureen Kennelly appointed as new Director of the Arts Council
  • Maurice Gunning & Alice McDowell Awarded Simon Cumbers Media Fund 2015
  • Maurice Gunning Wins the 2015 Galway International Human Rights Photographic Competition
  • May – June 2018 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • May / June 2019 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • May-June issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Meadhbh McNutt announced as winner of the DCC/VAI Art Writing Award 2020
  • Méadhbh O’Connor to represent Antarctica at 57th International Venice Biennale of Art 2017
  • Merry Christmas and a Creative 2023 – Office Closure Notice and Last eBulletins of 2022
  • MexIndex to Launch Critical Writing Competition
  • Michael Hill Appointed Programme Curator of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
  • Mieke Vanmechelen Announced as Kerry Filmmaker in Residence 2017
  • Mill Cove Galleries: Ceramic Commission Award Winners 2015
  • Minister Announces Redevelopment of Irish Arts Center, New York
  • Minister Boosts Funding to Increase Sharing of National Collections
  • Minister Humphreys announces €1.76m in funding through Culture Ireland
  • Minister Humphreys announces €370k funding for IMMA to pave way for Lucian Freud exhibition
  • Minister Humphreys announces €490k funding for National Gallery of Ireland in preparation for re-opening of historic wings
  • Minister Humphreys Announces Additional €2 million Funding for Arts Council for 2015
  • Minister Humphreys announces anti-harassment measures for arts sector workplaces
  • Minister Humphreys Announces Details of Funding Scheme for Local and Regional Museums
  • Minister Humphreys announces new €1m cultural Digitisation Scheme
  • Minister Humphreys announces plans to review Cap on the Per Cent for Art Scheme
  • Minister Humphreys makes appointments to the Board of the Arts Council
  • Minister Humphreys makes appointments to the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland
  • Minister Humphreys Publishes Draft Framework Policy for Culture 2025
  • Minister Madigan Announces Annex as Ireland’s representation at the 17th Biennale Architettura in 2020
  • Minister Madigan Announces Appointment of Dónall Curtin to the Arts Council
  • Minister Madigan Announces Appointments to the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland
  • Minister Madigan Announces Five New Cultural Ambassadors for Ireland
  • Minister Madigan Announces Funding for Crawford Art Gallery, Cork for Environmental Controls
  • Minister Madigan Announces Funding of €10,000 for Every Local Authority in 2019 Under the Community Strand of the Decade of Centenaries
  • Minister Madigan announces measures to significantly increase funding for Public Art
  • Minister Madigan Announces New Markievicz Bursaries, Five Annual Awards of €20,000 for Women Artists
  • Minister Madigan announces new scheme to enhance arts and culture centres nationwide
  • Minister Madigan Commits to Supporting Galway 2020
  • Minister Martin Announces Payment of Additional €1.9m to the Arts Council
  • Minister O’Donovan launches public consultation on the future of Basic Income for the Arts
  • miniVAN | An Arrow Shot Through Time and Irish Animation
  • miniVAN | Art History and Conservation
  • miniVAN | Comics & Graphic Novels
  • miniVAN | Illustration and Design
  • miniVAN | Jewellery Design
  • miniVAN | Modern Mythologies
  • miniVAN | Photography
  • miniVAN | RDS Visual Art Awards
  • miniVAN | Steel, Stone, and Wood
  • miniVAN | Street Art
  • miniVAN | The Ros Tapestry: A Tale Told in Thread
  • Miranda Driscoll Appointed Artistic Director for Sirius Arts Centre
  • Miranda Driscoll to Step Down as Director of Sirius Arts Centre
  • Model Opens Major New Semi-Permanent Installation of the Niland Collection
  • Naomi Sex Announced as Recipient of Fingal Arts Studio Award 2018
  • National Campaign for the Arts seeking contributions to online survey
  • National College of Art and Design Protests
  • National College of Art and Design: Student Demonstration
  • National Sculpture Factory Announce Recipients of Graduate Residency Awards 2020
  • NCAD Appoints Head of School of Visual Culture
  • NCAD Student March to the Department of Education
  • New Appointments to the Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
  • New Art and Ageing Programme Launched at IMMA in partnership with Creative Ireland
  • New Art Space in Kilkenny: The Brown Mountain Diamond
  • New Arts Council Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme | Applications Open 15 November
  • New Canon WUX500 Projector for Hire Exclusively to VAI Members
  • New Chair Announced at Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
  • New Co-Directors at Basic Space, Bassam Al-Sabah and Kim Gleeson
  • New Director for CREATE
  • New Director/Curator Appointed to LCGA
  • New Event | Donegal Visual Artists Network – Friday 15 April, 1pm
  • New Event | Show & Tell – Thursday 24 March, 3-4.30pm
  • New Event | Working With Curators – Tuesday 22 March
  • New Facilities and Projects Planned for Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan
  • New Head of Access & Engagement at Void, Derry
  • New interactive research tool for the creative industries – UK
  • New National Arts in Education Portal: Consultations
  • New PEC research:  The Migrant and Skills Needs of Creative Businesses in the United Kingdom
  • New Public Art by Holger Lönze in Geashill, Co. Offaly
  • New Research Points to “Cultural Catastrophe” in UK – Creative Industries Federation
  • New Team Member: Alf Desire, VAI Services
  • New VAI Equipment to Hire | InFocus Short Throw Projector
  • New Visual Arts Space for Dundalk
  • New Website
  • New Works Purchased by the Arts Council for its Collection
  • NEW: Visual Artists Ireland’s Marketplace
  • Next Week | Artist Talk: Connolly Cleary and The Eco SHOWBOAT (17 Feb, free for VAI members)
  • Niall McLaughlin Architects Represents Ireland at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice.
  • Níamh McCann awarded NCAD Fine Art Studio Residency 2016/2017
  • Niamh O’Malley with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios to represent Ireland at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022
  • Nikolaus Gansterer wins MAC International Prize
  • Noel Hensey announced as the winner of the VAI Experiment! Award 2023
  • Noel Kelly among four new members appointed to the Board of Culture Action Europe
  • Nominations Open for the Northern Ireland Creative and Cultural Skills Awards
  • Northern Ireland | Delays in Political Parties forming a Government Impacts Arts Organisations
  • Northern Ireland and UK | Tax Increases Announced for the Self Employed
  • Northern Ireland Arts Council Funding Cut by £500,000
  • Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme 2017
  • Not Reviewed? Don’t Complain – Notify
  • November – December 2021 Issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • November / December 2018 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • November / December 2019 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • November/December Issue of Visual Artists’ News Sheet Out Now
  • November/December Webinar Recordings Now Available to Members
  • Now Open for Bookings: Get Together 2014 – Friday, 23 May at IMMA
  • NYCI Child Protection Awareness Programme for Artists with Tom Kent – Dublin
  • NYCI Child Protection Awareness Programme for Artists with Tom Kent – Dublin
  • NYCI Child Protection Awareness Programme for Artists with Tom Kent – Ennis
  • Online Petition Relating to the Arts in Ireland Launched Tuesday
  • Online Visual Artists Café – Tuesday 19 May
  • ONLINE: Visual Artists Café, Tuesday 2 June
  • Open Call | DCC / VAI Art Writing Award 2018
  • Open Call | DCC / VAI Art Writing Award 2020
  • Open Call | Dublin City Council Residential Artists’ Studio 2019
  • Open Call | Visual Artists Ireland Suki Tea Art Prize 2019 at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • Orit Gat Announced as Recipient of The VAN Guest Editor Award 2023
  • Orlaith McBride Appointed Director of the National Archives
  • Our Next Government – Whoever they might be: What do we want them to commit to before we elect them into power?
  • Out Now | January – February 2017 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | January – February 2023 issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | January February 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | January February 2025 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | July – August 2017 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | July August 2023 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | July August 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | July August 2025 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | March April 2023 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | March – April 2017 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | March April 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | March April 2025 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | May – June 2017 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | May June 2023 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | May June 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | May June 2025 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | November December 2023 Special Issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | November December 2024 Special Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | November-December 2022 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | September – October 2017 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | September October 2023 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now | September October 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now! – July-August 2022 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now! September-October 2022 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Out Now! The VAN Podcast – Episode 3: Nathan O’Donnell and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll
  • Out Now! The VAN Podcast – Episode 4: Elaine Hoey
  • Out Now! The VAN Podcast – Episode 5: Array Collective
  • Paddy Campbell Awarded Giotto e l’Angelico Prize
  • Pallas Projects/Studios Announces Programme Celebrating 20 Year Anniversary
  • Pallas Projects/Studios Raises 27K with Gala Benefit Auction
  • Panel Discussions | Get Together 2024
  • Paper Visual Art Announces Regional Art Writing Programme 2015
  • Paraic Leahy Wins King Ping Pong 2018
  • Participate in Visual Artists Survey on Workspaces 2025
  • Partner Event | Moving Artworks and Creative Goods to and From GB & NI
  • Paul McCloskey Wins Award at London Contemporary Art Prize
  • Paying the Artist – The Arts Council Publish New Policy
  • Peadar McDaid Wins Derek Hill Foundation Award 2018
  • Peter Power Awarded Research Residency at The National Sculpture Factory, Cork
  • PhotoIreland Foundation Awards 2017 Open for Nominations
  • PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image | 24 to 26 March 2017
  • Positioning Your Practice – Fingal
  • Positive step for professional artists and writers as Ministers Humphreys and Varadkar launch pilot scheme to make it easier to access social welfare supports
  • POSTPONED | Sustaining Your Practice: Reflective Writing Workshops, Bangor
  • President Michael D. Higgins – Patron of Visual Artists Ireland
  • Profile Your Public Art in the January/February Issue of Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the May/June edition of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the November/December Issue of Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the September/October Issue of Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
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  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet July/August Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet June/July Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet March/April Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet November/December Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet November/December Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet September/October Issue
  • Profile Your Public Art in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Project Studios Awarded to Four Artists at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
  • PS2 (Belfast) Among Recipients of Freelands Artist Programme Funding
  • Rajinder Singh Awarded Artist in the Community Residency 2019, Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios
  • RDS/Monster Truck Studio Award 2015/16
  • Recent events show recent achievements
  • Recipients Announced | Artist Residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris for 2024-2025
  • Recipients of RDS Craft Awards 2020 Announced
  • Recipients of Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2020 Announced
  • Reminder: 2014 Valerie Earley Residency Award | Call for Applicants
  • Reminder: VAI Survey on Artists Payments and Workplace
  • Reminder: Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2015: Deadline 4 September
  • Reports of Scam Email Offers to Buy Artists Work
  • RETURN 2014: Claim Your Royalties
  • RETURN 2018 | Claim RETURN for Work Published in a Book or Magazine
  • Revenue Commissioners Announce New Regulations for The Regional Film Development Uplift
  • RHA Micro Grants Open for Applications Next Week
  • RHA School+Fingal Arts Announce Michelle Hall as Recipient of 2017 Fingal Arts Studio Award
  • Richard Gorman, Tamsin Snow and Eithne Jordan – Awarded Age & Opportunity Visual Arts Residency at Cowhouse Studios
  • Richard Long Knighted in New Year Honours List, UK
  • Rijeka to be European Capital of Culture in Croatia in 2020
  • Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business Announced
  • Róisín Power Hackett Announced as Recipient of ARC-LAB Gallery Curatorial Scholarship
  • Róisín Stack Awarded Jerome Hynes Fellowship for Clore Leadership Programme 2019/20
  • Róisín White Announced as Recipient of BLOW Photo Book Programme FUSE 2019
  • Roscommon Visual Artist’s Forum Announce Award Winner
  • Rosemary Steen Appointed CEO for Design & Crafts Council Ireland
  • Rosie O’Reilly Announced as Recipient of Basic Space Artist Residency
  • Royal Hibernian Academy Elects New President
  • Royal Hibernian Academy Elects New President, Abigail O’Brien PRHA
  • RUA RED announce partnership and exhibition series with a/political
  • Ruth McCarthy Awarded Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award 2018
  • Sandra Johnston Announced as Recipient of the O’Malley Visual Arts Award 2020
  • Sarah Browne to Curate TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2020
  • Save the Date | Bealtaine Mega Gathering Event, 4 December
  • Save the Date: Get Together 2025
  • Save the Date: Kader Attia in Dublin, Monday 25th November2019!
  • Save the Date: Public Art Now Conference at TU Dublin, October 29-31, 2020
  • SAVE THE DATE: VAI Get Together 2017 | Friday 15 September
  • Save the Date! Visual Artists Ireland Get Together 2015 – Friday 15 May at IMMA
  • Save the Dates: VAI’s Get Together 2022 | Ireland’s National Day for Visual Artists
  • Scoileanna Ildánacha / Creative Schools Pilot Begins
  • Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools to Announce a New Call for Creative Associates in Early 2020
  • Sculptor Eleanor Duffin is awarded the 2017 Tottenham Hale International Studios (THIS) Residency
  • Seamus Harahan Shortlisted for Jarman Award
  • Seamus Nolan Announced As Recipient of CAPP Commission
  • Sean Grimes NCAD, Talbot Gallery and Studios Most Promising Graduate Award 2015
  • Sean Lynch to Represent Ireland at the Venice Art Biennale 2015
  • Seasons Greetings from all of us in VAI
  • Selected Articles from the July/August 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists News Sheet
  • Selected Articles from the Latest Issue of the Visual Artists News Sheet
  • Selected Articles from the March/April 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists News Sheet
  • Selected Articles from the May/June 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists News Sheet
  • Selected Articles from the November/December 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Selected Articles from the September/October 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • September – October 2021 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • September / October 2018 Issue
  • September Webinar Recordings Now Available to Members
  • Setting Your Own Agenda with Patricia Clyne-Kelly at VAI Belfast Office
  • Sherry Erskine Wins VAI Student Membership Prize for The Burren Collage of Art
  • Shortlist Announced for The Savills Prize ’18 at Vue Art Fair, Dublin
  • Shortlist Announced for Zurich Portrait Prize 2019
  • Shortlist for 2015 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award
  • Shortlist for 2016 Golden Fleece Award Announced
  • Shortlist for 2019 Golden Fleece Awards Announced
  • Shortlist of Nominees Announced for Gallery of Photography Graduate Awards
  • Shortlisted Artists Announced for MAC International 2018
  • Sign the Petition | Reduce the threshold for Artists Resale Right in Ireland
  • Simon Magill Appointed Creative Director of MAC, Belfast
  • Sinead Moriarty, Mark O’Kelly and Fearghus Ó Conchúir appointed to the Arts Council
  • Siobhán Tattan selected as Artist in Residence at Centre for Philosophy+Visual Arts, Kings College London
  • Six Artists Selected for Project Studios at TBG+S
  • Six Artists Shortlisted for 2018 Golden Fleece Award Worth €30,000
  • Six Creatives to Benefit from Harnessing Creativity Programme
  • Social Welfare Scheme for Professional Artists on Jobseeker’s Allowance is accepting applications from professional artists engaged in a wide range of art forms
  • Social Welfare Scheme for Self-Employed Artists extended to wider Creative Community
  • Sol Art Gallery Has Moved to a New Location on D’Olier Street, Dublin 2
  • Speed Curating | Get Together 2024
  • Speed Curating! Extra Slots Added at Get Together 2015:
  • Statement from Minister for Arts on Budget 2015
  • Stephen S T Bradley Wins Prize at Moscow International Foto Awards
  • Storage Survey Results
  • Sue Rainsford Announced as Recipient of Critical Writing Award 2016/17
  • Survey: Funding for Visual Artists and Visual Artist Led Initiatives in Republic of Ireland
  • Susanne Wawra Winner of Talbot Gallery and Studios Most Promising Graduate Award 2016
  • Sustaining your Practice – Bealtaine & Visual Artists Ireland
  • Sustaining your Practice – Bealtaine & Visual Artists Ireland
  • TACTICAL MAGIC | TULCA 2019 Programme Announced
  • Tania Banotti appointed as Director of the Creative Ireland Programme
  • Taoiseach Commits to Bring Culture 2025 to the Oireachtas for Debate and Finalisation
  • Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar Launches Creative Youth Plan
  • Tax and Self Employment for Artists
  • Taxation, Financial Planning and Budgeting for Visual Artists – Tralee
  • TBG+S and RHA Appoints Katy Fitzpatrick as Learning and Public Engagement Curator
  • TBG+S Announces International Residency Recipients 2018 | Caroline Doolin + Kathy Tynan
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces artist Annaliisa Krage recipient of HIAP/TBG+S Residency Exchange 2019
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces five new Membership Studio Artists 2016
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Announces Five New Project Studio Artists 2017
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces four new Membership Studio Artists 2017
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Announces Jonathan Mayhew as Recipient of the 2019 TBG+S/HIAP Residency Exchange
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Announces Outcome of Open Call for Studios
  • Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Recent Graduate Residency Recipient
  • Tere Badia Appointed Secretary General of Culture Action Europe
  • Teresa Buczkowska Appointed to the Arts Council
  • Thank you to all VAI Members who participated in our recent survey
  • The Art of Mental Health with First Fortnight Festival @ The LAB, Dublin City Council
  • The Arts Council Funding Decisions and New Transparency Code
  • The Arts Council Launches ‘Creative Places Ireland’ Pilot in Tuam, Co. Galway
  • The Arts Council Northern Ireland is relocating
  • The Arts Council of Ireland’s Collection is Now Available Online
  • The Arts Council Programme for Ireland 2016: Open Call to the Irish Imagination
  • The Building Peace Through The Arts, Re-Imaging Communities Programme
  • The Department formerly known as Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht to be renamed Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
  • The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Has Published Culture 2025 – A National Cultural Policy Framework
  • The Finnish Institute in London, Announces the Finnish Residency Artists, UK and Ireland
  • The Golden Fleece 2015 Award Winners
  • The Good Hatchery : 2007 – 2016
  • The Good Hatchery Announces New Members 2015
  • The July/August 2015 Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet is Out Now!
  • The May – June 2021 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • The Nationwide Conversation on Ireland’s First Ever National Cultural Policy
  • The New Arts in Education Web Portal Launched
  • The RDS National Craft Awards are now open for applications…
  • The Social, Economic & Fiscal Status of the Visual Artist in Ireland – 2008/09
  • The Unseen Shows Podcast – Episode 7: Róisín White ‘These Dark Shapes’
  • The Unseen Shows Podcast by VAI – Episode 4: Austin Ivers ‘Threads’
  • The Unseen Shows Podcast by VAI – Episode 5: Gary Coyle ‘Dreaming Different Dreams’
  • The Unseen Shows Podcast by VAI – Episode 6: Ursula Burke ‘A False Dawn’
  • The VAN Podcast – Episode 6: Aideen Barry | Out Now!
  • The VAN Podcast | Episode 2: NINE Artist Collective and The Angelica Network
  • The VAN Questionnaire
  • The Voice of Culture Brainstorming Sessions 2015-2016: Cultural Professionals and Stakeholders
  • The Workhouse | Workshop with Ines Schaber and Lívia Páldi at TBG+S (5 Dec. 4pm)
  • Theatre Forum publish “Re-opening Arts Centres – Guidelines”
  • This Week’s VAI Webinars | Pricing Your Work and Creating Video Content to Tell Your Artist Story
  • Thomas Brezing awarded Creative Spark Artist-in-Residence 2017
  • Three of Northern Ireland’s Leading Galleries Join Prestigious Tate Initiative
  • Tim Shaw Events – Peer Critique and Talks in Belfast and Dublin
  • Tom McLean Announced as Winner of The Screaming Pope Prize at K-Fest
  • TULCA Announce 2020 Festival Programme – The Law is a White Dog
  • TUSLA Site Visit | Monday 25 April, 2pm
  • UCD and NCAD Centre for Creative Arts & Critical Cultures, New Research Centre
  • UK Excluded from European Capital of Culture
  • Úna Curley Receives Emerging Artist Residency Award at An Táin Arts Centre
  • Unanimous support for motion on the Arts as presented by Niamh Smyth TD (FF) at Dáil debate, 22 June
  • UNESCO celebration of International Women’s Day 2017 focuses on the arts
  • UNESCO launches Global Survey on Status of the Artist
  • University of Atypical celebrates Arts and Access, Belfast
  • Upcoming VAI Events | Moving Artwork Post Brexit (3 March) + Digital Identity – Communicating Your Practice Online (4 March)
  • Update from the Arts Council – 25 March
  • Update from The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
  • Update on Arts Council response, and clarification on Covid-19 Scheme (Press Statement – Arts Council)
  • Update on payments awarded for COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit
  • Updating your profile: Curator Visits & Research
  • Ursula Burke Wins VAI Suki Tea Art Prize 2018
  • Ursula Burke, Paul Hallahan and Cecilia Moore announced as recipients of the Golden Fleece Award 2018
  • V22 London Launch Pilot Project – Studio Workspace Crèche Facilities
  • VAI @ DAS | Visual Artists Ireland and Digital Arts Studios Residency Award
  • VAI @ DAS | Visual Artists Ireland and Digital Arts Studios Residency Award 2015
  • VAI and Bealtaine Survey of the Needs of Artists Over 50
  • VAI and NCFA Addressing Current Challenges Facing the Arts Sector
  • VAI announces 2-month residency for a current member at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • VAI Announces New Research Project: Local Action | Global Impact – Carbon Offsetting for the Arts
  • VAI Award Winners 2022
  • VAI Awards 2022: Call for Applications – Exchange!
  • VAI Awards 2022: Call for Applications – Experience!
  • VAI Awards 2022: Call for Applications – Experiment!
  • VAI CEO, Noel Kelly, hosts visit of Luca Jahier, President of the European Economic and Social Committee to culture sector of Northern Ireland
  • VAI Christmas Opening Hours
  • VAI Events – COVID19 Status – Updated 16 March 2020 14:16
  • VAI Get Together Fast Approaching! | BOOK 26 August
  • VAI Hot Desk Available Free to Members
  • VAI Invites New Institutional Approaches to Curating
  • VAI is Hiring: News Provision Role – Full Time, 3 Year Contract
  • VAI Launches Experiment Award
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Artist Talks | Liza Lou
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  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | Artists Speak | Laura Fitzgerald and Emma Roche in conversation with Ruth Carroll
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | Climate Action | Thursday 9 February, 3pm
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | Demystifying the role of the Curator
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | Demystifying the role of the Curator | 13 July, 11am (webinar) 1-5pm (Clinics)
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | Galway Visual Arts Needs Analysis (30th November)
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | New Event | The Ethical Artist – 29 November 2022
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  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Postponed Event | Social Welfare for Artists – 5 October 2022
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Safe to Create Webinar | 16 May, 11am
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  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Socially Engaged Practice with Áine Phillips (5 July)
  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Speed Curating | Wexford Based Visual Artists | Wednesday 19 July, 1-4pm
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  • VAI Lifelong Learning | Visual Artist’s Café | Show and Tell | Tuesday 18 July, 3-4.30pm
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  • VAI Members Day Out in Belfast – Meet Belfast Galleries and Join Us for a party to announce the 2017 Suki Tea Art Prize Winner
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  • VAI Open Day, Friday 16th December 2016
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  • VAI Statement on Payments for Get Together 2019 – The Facts
  • VAI Summer Gallery Guide 2021
  • VAI To Host Visits from International Curators Beatrice De Sousa & Jonas Stampe
  • VAI with Roscommon Visual Artists Forum | Common Room Cafe and Show & Tell
  • VAI Workshop | AMINI – Project Clinic with Peter Taylor at The MAC, Belfast (26 September)
  • VAI Workshop | Career Review with Geraldine O’Reilly – Limerick (8 Oct.)
  • VAI Workshop | Career Review with Jaki Irvine – Kildare (16 Oct.)
  • VAI Workshop | Landscape of Opportunities with Sheena Malone – Kildare (13 Nov.)
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  • VAN Event | Orit Gat in conversation with Isobel Harbison
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  • VAN Spotlight – May June 2024 | Critique | Hughie O’Donoghue ‘Territory’⁠
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  • VAN Spotlight – May June 2024 | Critique | Niamh McCann ‘someone decides, hawk or dove’⁠
  • VAN Spotlight – May June 2024 | International | When Forms Come Alive⁠
  • VAN Spotlight July August 2024 | Critique | Helen Hughes, ‘finding the most forgiving element’ ⁠
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  • Visual Artists Café in Partnership with FLive Arts Festival, Enniskillen (15 October)
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  • Visual Artists Café with Kiera O’Toole and Miguel Martin (Tuesday 16 June)
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  • Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2015 – Now Open For Applications
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  • Winner of The MAC’s £20,000 Art Prize Announced
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VAI Professional Development Training
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  • EVENT POSTPONED, Visual Artists Cafe at North Down Museum, Bangor
  • Handling & Packaging your Work with Maurice Ward Art Handling
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  • Legal Advice Clinics for Visual Artists & Makers of Fine Craft with Brenda Tobin / LASA
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VAN Podcast
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Visual Artists Ireland Events
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